Wanli Xinming

Chapter 120 Sweep
Li Zhi followed Feng Bangning to the typesetting room, and then went to the printing room to see.Seeing that there are ten identical machines with all wooden hoop iron placed in the room, they look weird, and I don't know how to use them.

Seeing that Li Zhi wanted to ask, Feng Bangning motioned to the foreman to demonstrate it to Li Zhi.The foreman then arranged for a worker to put the typesetting and proofreading type plate into the brush machine and turn it upside down, and hold it under an iron plate like black glue.

Li Zhi pointed to the iron plate and asked Feng Bangning, "What is this?"

Feng Bangning explained, "It's about pouring the mold. The plate is filled with a mixture of rosin, wax, and something else. I don't know the specifics, but it's also sold by Rishenglong."

While talking, Li Zhi saw that the worker turned on a long copper lamp under the machine, used fire to bake the iron plate holding the movable type, and then turned over an hourglass beside it.

Before the tea time, the sand in the hourglass was exhausted. The worker turned off the oil lamp, put down an iron plate with a wooden handle above the printing press, pressed it at the bottom of the movable type, and then turned a small hourglass again.

When the small hourglass was finished, the worker lifted the iron plate and movable type, and pulled out the iron plate. When Li Zhi looked over, he saw that a complete printing template had been made at the bottom of the iron plate.

Li Zhi walked over and stretched out his hand to touch it. It was as hard as iron and neatly organized, comparable to a woodblock.

Li Zhi was dazzled and asked Feng Bangning with a smile, "How long does it take to make this character selection and mould making together?"

Feng Bangning replied, "If four Kuaishou do it at the same time, and make a newspaper with [-] words on one side, it can be done in two hours, which is much faster than the engraving."

While speaking, the worker took out the prepared template and fixed it at the other end of the printing press.Take two leather hammers with wooden handles from the side of the machine, which are all oily with some black oil, and then use the two leather hammers to lightly beat the prepared font.

Feng Bangning said to Li Zhi, "Brother, this is the step of filling the ink. If you take a closer look at the printing, it will be amazing."

Seeing that the worker put the leather hammer back in place, Li Zhi opened a mechanism from the machine, and immediately put down a heavy leather roller, just on the end of the template filled with ink.Feng Bangning pointed to the drum and explained, "This drum is covered with a soft skin, and the inside is probably a solid iron rod. I'm struggling to hold it with all my strength."

Li Zhi glanced at Feng Bangning and said with a smile, "Are you strong? You are not ashamed!" Feng Bangning was enraged.

At this time, the assistant next to the machine has placed a hollowed-out plate with paper next to the machine on top of the font. The worker pressed the roller handle with his hand and rolled it over, and then the assistant lifted the plate, and a page full of handwriting was to make.

Here, the flat plate of the printed paper is removed, and another assistant next to it puts in the flat plate of hollowed-out paper from the other side, the roller rolls in the reverse direction, and another sheet is printed.When the print was finished, the previous assistant had replaced it with a new tablet, and the worker rolled the roller in the opposite direction.

In this case, the person swiped [-] sheets in a row, and saw that the handwriting was a little light, and the workers re-filled the ink.When he was filling in ink, the two workers next to him put sheets of paper into the hollow wooden boards to flatten and press them.

Li Zhi secretly timed and counted, and found that a machine was served by three people, and within one stick of incense time, more than 100 sheets were printed, which can be said to be as fast as lightning.He sighed and said: "It's really a wonderful thing, the money earned by Tianji Pavilion, it deserves it!"

The eighteenth day of June in the third year of Wanli is a day that Nanjing citizens have been talking about for decades.It was a thick and cloudy day because the sky was not beautiful, and the whole city of Nanjing was shrouded in black clouds.

However, the appearance of the "Huangming Nanjing Daily" was like lightning that pierced through the dark cloud, shocking all Nanjing Shilin and citizens.

"Songjiang Civil Revolt, Who's to Blame?" edited by Li Zhi "The majestic and heroic text strikes the hearts of Jiangnan like a thunderbolt!

Immediately for three consecutive days, the "Huangming Nanjing Daily" published three powerful articles: "Investigation Report on Jiangnan Mergers", "The Imperial Court Reaffirmed the Prohibition of Slavery", and "Jiangnan Land Mergers, Taxes and the Relationship between Small Farmers". The article stirred up the hearts of Jiangnan people.

The entire Jiangnan was like a hornet's nest, and when Feng Bangning and Li Zhi stabbed them with big sticks, they became a mess.And what followed, "Huang Ming Nanjing Daily" was completely on fire, and the fire went out of the sky!
Because the newspapers were given away for free on the first three days, the daily newspapers distributed [-] copies, [-] copies and [-] copies of the newspapers in Nanjing respectively within three days.

On the fourth day when the money was collected and the newspapers were sold, [-] copies of the two-piece newspaper were sold on the same day, and the number was increasing day by day.In less than half a month, almost all businesses with shops in the city subscribed, and some large restaurants even ordered a dozen copies, and the total sales of newspapers eventually stabilized around [-] copies.Afterwards, Susong, Hangzhou and other neighboring capitals, business and travel, moved by the wind, and representatives from various clippers crowded the Nanjing Daily Office.

Before the stunned and aphasic southern scholars could react, on June 26, the imperial court’s handling of the Songjiang civil uprising finally arrived in Nanjing:
Dong, Zhou, Gao, and Wang, four families with deep roots in Jiangnan, were surrounded by Jinyiwei Jiangnan Bureau and uprooted because of manipulating public opinion, coercing the court with people's rebellion, and trying to commit wrongdoing.

Previously, although Hai Rui investigated all four of them, the Nanjing court echoed the clamor from Shilin. Hai Rui did not detain the suspects, and after the investigation was over, they were released.

After waiting anxiously for a month and a half, seeing that the imperial court has not responded, everyone is relieved-the imperial court levies taxes and pays it to Jiangnan, and the imperial court honors the nobles, so they may not be able to kill.What's more, now the rivers and rivers are all promoting water conservancy, we know wrong, don't we enough to donate more food and work more?

Therefore, the great clans in the south of the Yangtze River have all contributed to the construction of water conservancy projects with the imperial court. At the same time, many clan leaders have warned the clansmen that the imperial court has to take care of the overall situation of the construction of water conservancy projects.
However, to everyone's surprise, the "Huang Ming Nanjing Daily" opened the first shot of the liquidation. When everyone reacted and wanted to react, there was no way to fight back, and even the property was transferred. not going out.

The imperial court made a big move this time, and the major nobles who fought were trembling with fear.The four families whose homes were raided had many melons and vines, and had economic contacts with various ethnic groups in the south of the Yangtze River. For a while, the wind in the south of the Yangtze River was shaking, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

Zhou and Gao were nothing more than that, but they had a lot of money and land, and a few jinshi juren were not very promising.The Dong and Wang clans are both famous clans with many prominent officials, and they are famous in Jiangnan for their "loyal and filial family heritage and scholarly family".In the Jiajing Dynasty alone, the Dong family had two servants, Tian Lianqianmo, who could be called rich.

The Wang family is even more incredible. At this time, Wang Shizhen is a high-ranking official who has been awarded the title of the imperial censor of the capital and the governor of Yunyang.His family originated in the Han Dynasty named Wang Ji, and since the Han Dynasty, there have been many famous eunuchs; Wang Shizhen's father, Wang Yuan, was the pioneer of the Jiajing Dynasty's downfall, and Gong Lun died because of his injustice.

Wang Shizhen was like the Big Dipper of Mount Tai in Shilin, and he was known as the "Seven Later Sons" of the dynasty along with Li Panlong, Xu Zhongxing, Liang Youyu, Zongchen, Xie Zhen, and Wu Guolun, and he was the leader of the Ming Dynasty.

However, all this is of no use. Under the repeated reports of Nanjing Daily, all the witnesses and physical evidence of the above-mentioned four crimes were exposed, which constituted a devastating blow to their family's voice.

Afterwards, a signed article published by Mr. Xu of Songjiang Xu Jie in Nanjing Daily linked the four families together and instigated the Xu family to lead the civil revolt. Down into the abyss, there is no hope of turning over again.

The imperial decree rushed to Yunyang, and directly dismissed Wang Shizhen from office.Wang Shizhen received the imperial decree, her whole head was empty, and she fell into a coma and didn't wake up.

On August [-] of the third year of Wanli, when the whole Jiangnan was still disturbed by the "Songjiang slave change", the court finally ended the examination of Wang Shizhen and released him without charge.When he got out of prison and returned to Taicang, Suzhou, he was greeted by crying and eyes full of mourning.

The four major families, including the Wang family, all involved in the Songjiang civil uprising were all detained in Nanjing awaiting judgment, and almost all their family and land properties were confiscated;

As Zhu Yijun had expected, all the aristocratic families and literary leaders who had been in close contact with the four criminals were all stunned and silent, like a quail.Officials at all levels, including Pan Jixun's assistant governor of the river, commanded the gentry from all over the country, and they were like arms and fingers.

What makes these four families extremely fortunate is that during the third auction of salt fields by the imperial court last year, each family took out some of their old money and took some salt fields in their hands; in addition, the court did not confiscated the sacrificial fields, so these families still paid for it. No one lives on the streets.

Zhong Ming Ding Food's luxurious enjoyment was lost in one day. The gold stones, antiques, books and the massive gold and silver accumulated in the silver cellar at home were all turned into floating clouds, and all of them were moved into the emperor's inner vault by Jin Yiwei.

And what happened to their family made many families in Jiangnan who did not participate in the Yantian auction almost regret it.

All of this kept Wang Shizhen in a trance - he often thought that he might wake up tomorrow and find that it was all a nightmare.

However, it was not a nightmare that made him terrified and woke up in the middle of the night every day.It is the "Huang Ming Nanjing Daily", which is published in Nanjing every day - it can be sold to Suzhou by the clipper the next day.

Public opinion is swept across the top with the momentum of Mount Tai, and all the so-called "Scholarly Clearing Discussions" in Jiangnan that have turned their hands into clouds and turned their hands into rain have all been swept into the garbage heap of history.

　The chapter in the early morning of tomorrow has not been written yet, and Lao Mo will try his best to catch up. Don't wait.Try to save a chapter this week and make up for the second one.

　　
　
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